Laws that restrict retailers from owning drugstores in Germany and Italy were challenged at the European Union´s top court in a dispute that may lead to the lifting of similar bans across half of the 27-nation EU.
In an unusual blow against a big federal flood-control project, the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday rejected a proposal to build a huge water pump intended to reduce flooding in the Mississippi Delta, saying it would have had an "unacceptable, adverse" impact on thousands of acres of wetlands.
The administration of Bolivian President Evo Morales is refusing to recognize a National Electoral Court (CNE) decision suspending a constitutional referendum set for Dec. 7. Nationalization Minister Hector Arce said Monday that letters sent to Morales by CNE President Jose Luis Exeni purporting to suspend the referendum have no legal effect.
Thailand´s Election Commission on Tuesday voted to recommend that the country´s ruling People´s Power Party (PPP) be disbanded for election fraud allegedly committed by one of its former top officers.
Thai Union Frozen Products Pcl, the world´s second-biggest tuna canner, said it will receive a tax refund of $2.6 million from the U.S. Trade Department after winning a petition against excessive duties on shrimp products.
EU leaders plan to urge Russia not to isolate itself from the rest of Europe.
On Monday, Maine joins other U.S. states and Canadian provinces that have made it illegal to smoke in a car while children are present. But for the first year the law´s in effect, violators will only get warnings.
Google is in the midst of a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Viacom for YouTube violations of copyright infringement.
The United Nations is calling for urgent action to halt climate change on the 20th anniversary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The U.N. Secretary General and other eminent personalities were present at the official ceremony, which celebrated this event in Geneva from where Lisa Schlein reports for VOA
Russia has called for an arms embargo on Georgia as the European Union prepares to meet to discuss possible sanctions against Moscow.
Japan´s Shionogi & Co. said Monday that it plans to buy Sciele Pharma Inc. of the United States at a cost of 1.42 billion dollars, the latest foray by a Japanese drugmaker into foreign territory.
European regulators extended a review of a proposed purchase by Manitowoc Co., the largest producer of U.S. ice machines, of U.K. restaurant-equipment maker Enodis Plc.
Microsoft Corp., the world´s biggest software maker, agreed to buy Greenfield Online Inc. and its subsidiary Ciao GmbH for about $486 million in cash to add price- comparison sites in Europe.
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Wednesday submitted requests to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (UNCLCS) to claim exclusive harvesting rights to an area of the seabed surrounding Ascension Island.
Lawyers blocked streets in the major cities of Pakistan on Thursday to demand the reappointment of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and other judges removed last year by former President Pervez Musharraf.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed yesterday that despite pressure from the US Justice Department, the Google Yahoo advertising partnership will proceed with its scheduled launch of early October.
Iran´s official IRNA news agency says the government now has nearly 4.000 centrifuges operating in its uranium enrichment plant.
Closely held Mercury Cos., the operator of mortgage companies that once had almost 250 offices in six states, sought bankruptcy court protection from creditors, blaming its collapse of the U.S. housing market.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has stood down from his Cabinet posts while inquiries into fraud allegations are completed.
Western Union Co., Travelex Ltd. and as many as 100 other money-transfer companies will be regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority as a result of new European Union laws.
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